The Fabric of History: Text, Artifact and Israel's Past

by Diana Vikander Edelman (Editor)

Six scholars explore the nature of history and historical reconstruction and the place of history within biblical studies. The uncritical use of both text and artifact that continues to dominate histories of Israel and Judah testifies to the need for a wider grassroots awareness of the basic issues involved in doing history as a biblical scholar. A growing number of scholars are questioning the theoretical underpinnings of the main 'schools' of research and are calling for an approach that makes a more critical evaluation of both textual and artifactual material before using it in historical reconstruction. These essays were first presented at the annual SBL/ASOR meeting in 1989 in a symposium entitled 'The Role of History and Archaeology in Biblical Studies'.

148 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Research Associate in the Department of Near and Middle East Studies, Trinity College, Dublin, interested in the history, archaeology, and literature of the ancient southern Levant.

Reviews

[Felicity Chen · Rating 3 out of 5]

I only read the required chapter that I needed for my reading list. It made sense! It was a nice quick read to check mark 😁
Wait was this the one where it was like “people keep trying to reconstruct a history of Israel without using the Bible so they say that they aren’t using the Bible but then their assumptions they’re working from all stem from the Bible”? I think. I’ve been reading too much I’m not sure if that was from this or something else 😵‍💫😆